Glass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants · North Carolina

Corning - Concord Facility

Midland, NC · ~910 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning - Concord Facility runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Glass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Corning - Concord Facility: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Glass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corning - Concord Facility safety composite

Corning - Concord Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Corning - Concord Facility held a steady TCR band

Corning - Concord Facility's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.8 in 2020 to 0.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.8 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327212 · Midland, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Corning Optical Comm…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~910 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corning - Concord Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Corning - Concord Facility averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Glass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Corning - Concord Facility TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Corning - Concord Facility falls in its industry

75 Glass fiber, optical, made in establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Glass fiber, optical, made in employers in North Carolina.

Corning - Concord Facility (910 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Corning - Concord Facility
Corning - Concord Facility (910 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Corning - Concord Facility has more employees than the Glass fiber, optical, made in glass maki median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 0.6 0.6 8 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 8 0 0
2020 0.8 0.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327212 · NC · Midland

75 Glass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Midland, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Etowah 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning - Aiken 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shafter Glass Mat 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Current Lighting 909 FTE
STATE-SIZE GKN Alamance 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sealand South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intertape Polymer Group 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Mfg. Co., LLC 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Teva Pharmaceuticals USA - Fairfield 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Subsea Technologies Division - Stafford 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston #14 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Electronics, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Union Hospital 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victoria's Secret Direct Call Center 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : MIA5 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleigh General Hospital 910 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.